This statement (available at: www.icvanetwork.org) has been drafted in consultation with, and is delivered on behalf of, a wide range of NGOs and aims to reflect the diversity of views within the NGO community.

A number of inter-connected factors contribute
to exacerbate people's vulnerability around the world: including climate
change, global financial crisis, rapid demographic changes and human displacement,
growing stresses on natural resources, and sometimes underlying political
instability or conflict. All these factors when combined often have dramatic
consequences for poor people and will most likely increase the humanitarian
caseload in the years to come.